The Nineteenth Byte

12:31 AM

As Shaggy said here:
https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/52503568#52503568

"Thanks for confirming you're a troll; I wasn't entirely sure."

Now, I am not denying or admitting anything right now but... I never confirmed ANYTHING! So, I got a WEEK ban just because shaggy made some random presumption.

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Q: Substitute Unprintable ASCII Characters

Sandbox Have y'all ever written an answer with unprintable ASCII characters in it and wished that there was an easy way to represent those characters in a printable way? Well, that's why the Control Pictures Unicode block was invented. However, manually substituting these characters into one'...

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Tom Minor

Because, that really is not cool. especially considering i use SE chat a lot across other networks so getting a week ban was not preferable

and i did not even confirm anything

DJMcMayhem

12:43 AM

@TomMinor That is not the reason you got banned

Tom Minor

Okay???

@DJMcMayhem why so then??

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1:04 AM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Sandbox reviewers, thanks for checking this out. I posted this question (after a few revisions) as a code challenge and pretty much no one likes it. Please give some feedback as to why it's not appropriate, clear, fun, or whatever other criticism you have. I think it's a very interesting problem ...

Jo King

2:59 AM

@TomMinor Maybe the same reason your Meta.se account is suspended?

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Tom Minor

@JoKing I only made a few challenges for you fellow code golfers to solve. It was just you had to use only html and css.

Apparently you merely did not like my challenges so you suspended me???

Tom Minor

3:19 AM

anyway, i am NOT bobby woodtooth

Jono 2906

Howdy everyone.

Jo King

@TomMinor Well, the challenge was not ontopic for this SE, and you kept posting it even after you were told so

DJMcMayhem

@TomMinor That's rude

@TomMinor I have evidence to the contrary

Jo King

Oof, someone doesn't know about IP addresses

Jono 2906

@JoKing Haha! Good one!

DJMcMayhem

3:25 AM

→ 2 messages moved to Trash

Jo King

@DJMcMayhem Were they also the person behind the other new account pretending to be the user that was self-vandalising?

Tom Minor

wait ME?? you gotaa be crazy

i thought that was over with

Jono 2906

3:49 AM

Hey @All, is my profile picture showing up alright on y'all computers?

Because it's not showing up on my computer

A _

When I come I will star every message starred.

@Jono2906 Also including my avatar. Maybe my computer is broken?

Jono 2906

@A_ don't worry, it was just my internet

乁(ᴗ ͜ʖ ᴗ)ㄏ

A _

I guess my speaker is broken too. When the ping sound is played I thought someone knocked the door. (There is nobody by the door.)

DJMcMayhem

@A_ Please don't

A _

@DJMcMayhem I am not adding more starred messages...

DJMcMayhem

3:58 AM

Oh sorry, I read that wrong

A _

Anarchy golf is in anarchy. You could submit answers that will work in another language other than the language you are submitting in.

I still haven't got a 19-byte solution in Z80Golf yet...

A _

4:11 AM

...as soon as A _ comes.. BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

just kidding

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5:11 AM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Play Big 2 by yourself, as fast as you can Introduction Big 2 is a card game popular in East Asia and South East Asia, in which 4 players are dealt 13 cards each (ie, an equal division of a standard deck without jokers). The goal is to empty your hand before any of the other players. Players ta...

Bubbler

5:53 AM

Any other suggestions on this sandboxed challenge?

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8:56 AM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

SandChallenges for Proposed box [draft] code-golfgridstring In this challenge you should simulate how "challenges" interact with each other. Symbols used in the documentation SandChallenges is played on a 3x3 grid. X represents a challenge. It challenges the grid next to its position. repre...

A _

1:10 PM

@NewSandboxedPosts Created as a joke of shuffling the name "Sandbox for Proposed Challenges" into SandChallenges for Proposed box.

Is splitting a thread into 3 equal parts simultanously possible?

caird coinheringaahing

Hey, can anyone see any obvious ways to simplify or exploit the scoring of this challenge proposal?

dzaima

@cairdcoinheringaahing if there was a language in which repeating a character acted like one character, easily. If there's not, then maybe i should make one, as it'd be able to do well in many radiation-hardening challenges

A _

1:26 PM

@dzaima My new language. Should hopefully do well in those challenges.

caird coinheringaahing

@dzaima Luckily, this challenge is protected from that :P

dzaima

@cairdcoinheringaahing as I said though, it'd be a general strategy against all radiation-hardening challenges, and banning it would be as bad as banning golflangs for code-golf

caird coinheringaahing

@dzaima I think a language like that could be really interesting FWIW, just pointing out that designing it for my challenge would be a loophole :P

dzaima

@cairdcoinheringaahing yeah, agreed on both points

caird coinheringaahing

I think trying to distinguish between applying a command multiple times and having it in the program to make it radiation hardened would be the sticking point

For instance, if a doubles its argument, does aaa times by 8, or is it like that to prevent characters being removed affecting the program?

dzaima

1:34 PM

@cairdcoinheringaahing assuming that's rare enough, you could just have a separation character that's parsed normally in the repetition removing stage but removed after

caird coinheringaahing

So the aaa example would instead be ababa to multiply by 8, or aaa to multiply by 2? (Assuming b is the separation character)

dzaima

@cairdcoinheringaahing something like that. Or aabbaabbaa for multiply by 8 for n=2

caird coinheringaahing

Then how would you specify n?

dzaima

@cairdcoinheringaahing the interpreter doesn't care about n, it just removes repeating chars

caird coinheringaahing

Hmm, that's clever

Programs would get very long very fast, but it would work

dzaima

1:40 PM

@cairdcoinheringaahing yeah. is there a general algorithm that'd allow restoring any n bytes without multiplying source length by n?

caird coinheringaahing

I don't think so

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Q: Can this Scottish village have a wedding?

This is the exact same question I asked earlier, but without the annoying Cyrillic factor which many found superfluous. I hope this is a better puzzle! The quaint hamlet of North Codetown in the Scottish far north has a problem: their population is low (below 52), and no new people have arrive...

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caird coinheringaahing

Once you remove the chars/bytes, the algorithm is no longer lossless, so you have to just multiply by n

@NewMainPosts See, you make fun of "North Codetown" as a Scottish village name, but some of the names over here are ridiculous enough, that North Codetown would be considered normal! :P

A _

That name insults the Scottish.

caird coinheringaahing

I would recommend anyone interested in ^^ check out The Meaning Of Liff

dzaima

1:45 PM

for n=1 (so one byte removal) storing a 32-bit hash in any way (as it's a constant cost) would protect pretty much any program that fits inside an SE post if you just attempt all insertions everywhere. does that extend at all for n>1?

caird coinheringaahing

I'm reading through meta posts such as [this](https://codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9263/which-number-formats-are-acceptable-in-output?noredirect=1&lq=1) or [this](https://codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5343/66833) and it's reminding me that the one thing I don't like about this site is how nitpicky we can get when it comes to stuff like I/O defaults. I know its all there to avoid exploiting challenges, but it can get very irritating when you're asked "Can I have leading/trailing whitespace?" or "Is it acceptable to have <insert insanely convoluted string> as an input instead…

dzaima

2:14 PM

if i'm not mistaken, if storing the hash in the regular repeating way the total length should be about len + (log256((256×len)^n))^2×n bytes long for ~60% chance of being collision-free (damn birthday paradox)

AdmBorkBork

@cairdcoinheringaahing And the flipside, when you restrict a challenge to avoid those exploits and then people complain that language X has to add 3 bytes to account for that restriction.

dzaima

@dzaima ..which simplifies down to len + n^3 × (1+log_256(len))^2. that n^3 is horrible, but on the other hand the length almost doesn't affect the overhead when it's high enough

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2:45 PM

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Q: Make me speak L33T

I want to be down with the kids of the 1990's and start speaking this L33T speak of their's. For any given input I would like the resulting L33T speech as an output. I don't want to go to far down the rabbit hole so let's start simple. Consider the following replacements: B or b = 8 E or e = ...

code-golf string

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7:22 PM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Parse a regex Grep is a wonderful tool. It can find stuff in files, it can help you spell stuff correctly (grep 'whatever' /usr/share/dict/words or wherever that file is), and it can even test if something is a prime number! However, the first version was implemented back in the golden age, whe...

AdmBorkBork

9:25 PM

Interesting that they didn't change the downvote values on questions, just the upvote value.

caird coinheringaahing

@AdmBorkBork I agree with not "charging" -1 for question downvotes. I downvote questions much more than answers

AdmBorkBork

No, meaning that if UserA downvotes a question that UserB posted, UserB loses 2 rep. That means that instead of a 2.5:1 ratio, it's now a 5:1 ratio, so one upvote is worth "more," proportionally, than it was previously.

caird coinheringaahing

@AdmBorkBork Isn't that the same that answers have always been?

AdmBorkBork

Yeah. And I'm not necessarily complaining, I just find it interesting.

Poke

sigh

my manager left last Friday

now everything is chaos for a little while

but i'm a hot commodity

so we'll see what benefits that yields

caird coinheringaahing

9:34 PM

Hmm, this looks fairly star-abuse-y :/

Poke

9:52 PM

star-ers gonna star

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11:36 PM

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Q: Triangular domino tiling of an almost regular hexagon

Background An almost regular hexagon is a hexagon where all of its internal angles are 120 degrees, and pairs of the opposite sides are parallel and have equal lengths (i.e. a zonogon). The following is an example of an almost regular hexagon, with side lengths 2 (red), 4 (blue), and 3 (yell...

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